Category: Worth A Click

These articles from CableOrganizer.com explain what makes hand tools ergonomic and, therefore, easier and safer for you to use.

The Fall Prevention Center tells us how to stay upright and avoid spills that sideline us from living more of life.

And finally, UglyHousePhotos.com - pictures of clutter, ugly decor, bad taste and tacky furnishing. The antithesis of Gimpy friendly. Don’t let this be you! (And don’t eat while looking at these. It would be bad for the digestion.)

This morning we signed on and found a whole page of links to the very worst of porn sites. Some waste-of-skin, low-life hacked in and posted them all on a sweet story about vacation opportunities for autistic children.

We know that stuff is automatically generated — spammers have their computers search the Web for an opening and then insert their links like flies lay eggs. They apparently landed on us after finding a weakness in WordPress security.

It was disgusting and disheartening and we apologize to anyone who saw it.

Books for Dessert is one of the few book clubs for developmentally disabled adults. Conversations in the club have drifted from what it means to be poor to why President George W. Bush doesn’t have the authority to behead people.

Learn to be Read the story in a disaster by considering simple steps to improve your odds in an emergency.

Michelle Colvard, of Houston, has been crowned Ms. Wheelchair America, a position that will have her touring the nation to challenge stereotypes about women with disabilities.

A Read the story on the growing number of inexpensive devices that let us monitor the energy our appliances, TVs, computers and heating and cooling system really use. The average home reportedly has 27 power-sucking devices that are always on. How many do you have?

Spectacular photos in the New York Times Read the story. We’re fans of L.E.D.’s and look forward to the day when they become cheaper to use throughout the house, especially down near floors and along walls.

Rick Manning of the Courier-Journal weighs in with his ?AID=/20080726/COLUMNISTS17/807260356/1011/SCENElatest list of gadgets, including a twist-and-fold media tripod.

Eds. Note: Cait & Marty lob a lot of email at each other about ideas that each finds on the Web and then pitches to the other as a post. Cait was so passionate in her pitch this morning that Marty is just going to post the text of her email with links to what she’s opining about.

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I know I sent you a lot of videos from MSNBC today but all are worth looking at and most worth posting.

I especially like the one about the two young people with chronic illness and the one about the This video. I once told a Jesuit priest that the only products of war were death and disability. He quoted me in a sermon.

The video of the bear scratching was AMAZING! Brilliant! I did not know that bears had such flexible hips! What human movements this bear made!

Cross Click and Clack with the Two Fat Ladies and you end up with something pretty dang close to The Gimpy Girls.

Cheerfully preoccupied with gadgets, gardening, scavenged treasures, and smart design, The Gimpy Girls - Cait & Marty - point you to smart solutions for Baby Boomers, the Disabled, and The Just Plain Lazy. We’re not kidding - this site is the next best thing to those “Cheaters” that are glued to your forehead.